Falangist and National Catholic Women in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939

ISBN-13: 9780367146740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 274 str.

Angela Flynn

Opis

By examining the vital and invisible role played by women within Madrid’s ‘fifth column’ this monograph offers a new contribution to the gender historiography of the Spanish Civil War and re-evaluates the significance of women in the Nationalist war effort.

Spis treści

Contents;  Acknowledgements;  List of Abbreviations;  Introduction;  Part I: The Role of Women in The Clandestine Falange;  Chapter I: The Origins of Auxilio Azul;  Chapter II: The Structure and Organisation of Auxilio Azul;  Chapter III: The Role of Women in The Mixed Gender Clandestine Falange Groups;  Part II: The Women in Madrid’s Autonomous Fifth-Column Resistance;  Chapter IV: Traitors and Rebels;  Chapter V: Female Spies;  Conclusion;  Bibliography;  Appendix A

O autorze

Angela Flynn is an historian at Oxford University who recently completed a DPhil under the supervision of Dame Frances Lannon. She co-teaches, alongside Professor Robert Gildea, a third-year undergraduate Special Subject on "France from the Popular Front to the Liberation, 1936-1939" and co-convenes an inter-disciplinary seminar series sponsored by TORCH Oxford/Stanford University in Oxford entitled "Conversations on Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood."